A BLACK STONE STELE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI
NEPAL, 17TH CENTURY
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high
Details
- Title : A BLACK STONE STELE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Black Stone
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : 17TH CENTURY
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 624
- Pre-Lot Text : PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF BARONESS EVA BESSENYEY
- Lot Essay : Chakrasamvara and his fierce consort Vajravarahi, important deities of the highest class of yogic practice in Newar Buddhism, are depicted here in alidhasana with four faces and twelve hands, striding atop supine figures. The multi-headed tutelary deity Chakrasamvara holds various attributes with his many arms radiating around him, the principle arms holding a vajra and ghanta and the uppermost draping a tiger skin over his back.
- Price realised : USD 17,500
- Estimate : USD 10,000 - USD 15,000
- Exhibited : On loan to the Hofstra University Museum of Art, 1968/69-2011 *New York, Hostra University Museum of Art, "Fragments of Eastern Religions," 6 July-25 September 1983; and "Focus on India," 18 April-6 May 1979
- Provenance : Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Manheim Christie's New York, 12 September 2012, lot 542